ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Wellington, March 23, 1853.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 796, 23 March 1853, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Wellington, March 23, 1853.

My dxak Mhses. Smith, Jonis, and Bmowfr, — "In asking you to let me address you publicly on several matters of great importance to New Zealand, and this settlement in particular, I am encouraged to do so" knowing you to be three excellent fellows, ia the first place, and in the second place (I may as well admit the real truth, to ease my conscience) t do it to promote my own interests as well^as yours. •• You cannot be more sorry to learn, than I am to inform you, that the address" from some too confiding inhabitants of Wellington to the Schemer-in-Chief, which you and its other signers hoped would conduce to your luring harmoniously with the detected humbug, "has completely failed in its object." I know full Well th* paper was got up by some really respectable settlers, with an intimation that not the slightest infusion of politics was contained therein or intended to be squeezed out of it, and this had the effect of increasing it in respectability and inducing many to append their names, w£o now. sincerely repent of. the artful dodge they hare been the unwilling participators of. /, however, rejoice at the exposure of the man by himself, but feel a natural pity for his dupes. Let every man in Wellington read Edward Gibbon Wakefield's letter to Mr. Tancred and judge for himself; along with it I entreat his attention to the ac&mpanying addresses and his reply. Mayeach settler reflection these productions, upon, their author's former career in connection with the New Zealand Company and the Canterbury Association, his re* .cent pacific professions, and hit present position, and I leave every man to form his own conclusions. This new actor on our stage is perfectly transparent, his intentions and his object are seen directly you look at his windy, and, I guess, unwelcome address to a most worthy man and esteemed colopist. The plain fact is, the intended operations of himself and the other constellation per Minerva will be slightly deranged by the recent admirable land regulations of the Governor, for the promulgation of whose wise views, the bond fide settlers of New Zealand cannot too heartily rejoice, and they may look with confidence to the happiest results in a short time from their adoption. It would be a waste of time to wade through Mr. Wakefield's letter to Mr. Tancred as I at first intended, and to exhibit in their nakedness the many cool and impudent assertions therein contained. Suffice it to remark they are one and all worthy of the writer and bis associates. But for the sake of those,my dear sirs, who would recoil from the task of ever reading the effusion, permit me to address one or two words to you. It appears, then, a man arrives here, with a varied reputation to say the least, one who in former years but no ! I will not imitate what "mydearDoctor Featherston" wanted to do once at the Britannia Saloon; but was stopped by gentlemen from carrying out, — drag before the world certain indiscreet follies of his early life.and point the finger of scorn at them for the remainder of his life. I tear* suA a for my"dear DoptorFeatherston,"who,if report says true, went out one morning with an intention of ijoing anything but the amiable to a person, not very distantly related to the subject of my Remarks. The same person had an intimate connection with the Company, he was said, and that correctly, to be the prime mover of its proceedings, but one who on all occasions generally preferred pulling the strings behind the scenes, to being actually a performer on the boards before the curtain himself. Can you doubt this course was prompted by wise and potent reasons. This said Company, as is well known, was most faithfully compared by "my dear Doctor Featherston," and justly too, in its treatment of the settlers of Wellington to the bad beggar woman, who pinched her borrowed child to make it cry, and excite the pity of compassionate souls. The subject now before us was, as you are all three aware, a Director of the Company, but not all his acknowledged cleverness could avail him, he humbugged and humbugged as long as he could, and pliable Mr. Cowell went on the same tack, but "my dear Dr. Featherston" fixed both Wakefield and Cowell at last. Finding the old Company could get nothing out of the colonists, and that the Imperial Government, whether Whig or Tory, dared not for the sake of public opinion, bolster up his schemes, like a rat he left bis former deluded fellow Directors, but it was not in his nature to give np scheming. The Canterbury Association starts into existence, and as shameless ipiect of "organized hypocrisy" comes before the public, as modern times ever witnessed. Religion was put prominently forward as an inducement to invest ;— and mark you, in the words of the Australian and New Zealand Gazette, " this very director of the Company who lent money to tlte Canterbury Association, was the very same director of the Association who, when he had got it, found out that the New Zealand Company had no business to lend. In the same journal of th,e same date; speaking of Canterbury, the Editor says : — " the settlement is an excellent one either for ! pastoral or agricultural purposes ; but the elements of new discord are just gone forth, (the Minerva had sailed a few days previously,) and if the colonists do not kick them out as soon as they enter, they will be unmindful of their best interests. " Most certainly our Canterbury j friends have been mindful of their interests ; they have duly taken stock of the two newly-ar-rived constitutional sages per Afmm>a,and as the Yankees expressively say, posted them to the latest date.— Vide Lyttelton Times, March sth. It remains to be seen whether the real settlers and working men of Wellington are as mindfuj of their interests as their friends at Canter. It would he improper to proceed further with toy observations at this moment, as I know neither you, Jones, or Brown like long letters ; but assuring you of my intention to continue this painful, yet necessary, subject very shortly through this medium,